Algorithm for calculating the noncentral chisquare distribution

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1327-1333

  Ross, Arthur H M ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Chisquare distribution; Neumann series; Qfunction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; NEUMANN SERIES; Q-FUNCTION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0032667068     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.761294     Document Type: Article

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